Pirate Ship Mafia [Concluded]

[Sasaki Kojiro]

This will undoubtedly be a very good game--every thing denotes it--very much a good game indeed!--but when it comes time to vote again, if this bandwaggoning continues, I will be on my guard not to encourage it--It would be most inexcusable to do otherwise, as my own mind is quite made up about the quality of such methods. I do not look upon you to be quite that sort of pirates-- I do not altogether build upon your arbitrariness or constancy. Your feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable. Such is, at least, my hope.

I do not say, exert yourself, fellow pirates, for my sake; think more, talk more for my sake; because for your own sake rather, I would wish it to be done, for the sake of what is more important than my wishes, a habit of self-command in you, a consideration of what is your duty, an attention to propriety, an endeavour to avoid the suspicions of others, to save your health and credit, and restore tranquillity to this ship. These are the motives which I have been pressing on you. They are very important--and sorry I will be if you cannot feel them sufficiently to act upon them. My being saved from pain is a very secondary consideration. I want you to save yourself from greater pain.

Select:Crazed Rabbit

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

argh, them be some tall words pirate Sasaki.

something we shall all take to heart. that is if we can make any sense of it! har har har!

[scotchedpommes]

No matter, he says he wants us saved from pain... and so he selects the captain who'd bring it.

[Louis VI the Fat]

This will undoubtedly be a very good game--every thing denotes it--very much a good game indeed!--but when it comes time to vote again, if this bandwaggoning continues, I will be on my guard not to encourage it--It would be most inexcusable to do otherwise, as my own mind is quite made up about the quality of such methods. I do not look upon you to be quite that sort of pirates-- I do not altogether build upon your arbitrariness or constancy. Your feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable. Such is, at least, my hope.

I do not say, exert yourself, fellow pirates, for my sake; think more, talk more for my sake; because for your own sake rather, I would wish it to be done, for the sake of what is more important than my wishes, a habit of self-command in you, a consideration of what is your duty, an attention to propriety, an endeavour to avoid the suspicions of others, to save your health and credit, and restore tranquillity to this ship. These are the motives which I have been pressing on you. They are very important--and sorry I will be if you cannot feel them sufficiently to act upon them. My being saved from pain is a very secondary consideration. I want you to save yourself from greater pain.

Select:Crazed Rabbit

The above sounded strangely familiar. And lo and behold! It is: it is an excerpt from Jane Austen's 'Emma'.

Jane Austen is the literature of those with a petty loyalty to merry old England....


Off to the shark's with this perfidious English traitor, says I!

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Jane Austen is the literature of those with a petty loyalty to merry old England....

And of those pirates possessing an exquisitely refined taste

[atheotes]

Jane Austen is the literature of those with a petty loyalty to merry old England....

And of those pirates possessing an exquisitely refined taste

off with both o' you then

[TinCow]

And of those pirates possessing an exquisitely refined taste

Reading Jane Austen is an inhumane method of execution. Not even pirates are that cruel.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

off with both o' you then

My is cooler than your

Sunglasses > eyepatch. I'll be staring serenely into the sun while you are squinting and shielding yourself; I'll be laughing when you can't catch the belaying pins I toss you because you have no depth perception.

Reading Jane Austen is an inhumane method of execution. Not even pirates are that cruel.

Think it a little over. Perhaps you are not so much aware as I am of the wonder that may, of the joy that must arise from a young man's foray into her works: occupied in this manner; oblivious to the outer world, and placed suddenly on a footing with the great minds of old. To think only of the pleasure which every reading must tend to create. It is all very good! Put yourself in the first time reader's place, TinCow. Consider what it would be to experience the novels with fresh eyes. They have a right to be felt for, because you evidently feel for yourself. Their feelings ought to be respected. Does it not strike you so, TinCow?

[TinCow]

Think it a little over. Perhaps you are not so much aware as I am of the wonder that may, of the joy that must arise from a young man's foray into her works: occupied in this manner; oblivious to the outer world, and placed suddenly on a footing with the great minds of old. To think only of the pleasure which every reading must tend to create. It is all very good! Put yourself in the first time reader's place, TinCow. Consider what it would be to experience the novels with fresh eyes. They have a right to be felt for, because you evidently feel for yourself. Their feelings ought to be respected. Does it not strike you so, TinCow?

It was the best of writing, it was the worst of writing, it was the product of creativity, it was the product of an unrelatable society, it was the epoch of literature, it was the epoch of dross, it was the vocabulary of education, it was the plotline of drivel, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, Austen had everything before her, Austen put nothing before us, we were all going direct to sleep, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the writing was so far like Dickens and Bronte, that some of the noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

[Iskander 3.1]

(Um, Dickens and Austen weren't even born yet...and has anyone here read Ms. Austen's latest?)

[scotchedpommes]

it was the epoch of dross, it was the vocabulary of education, it was the plotline of drivel

Surely here's a man who must be captain.